Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Taurus (Tau)  ·  Contains:  Barnard's Merope Nebula  ·  IC 349  ·  IC 353  ·  Maia Nebula  ·  Merope Nebula  ·  NGC 1432  ·  NGC 1435  ·  The star 18Tau  ·  The star Atlas (27Tau)  ·  The star Celaeno (16Tau)  ·  The star Electra (17Tau)  ·  The star Merope (23Tau)  ·  The star Pleione (28Tau)  ·  The star Sterope I (21Tau)  ·  The star Taygeta (19Tau)  ·  The star ηTau
The Pleiades, James Muehlner
The Pleiades
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The Pleiades

The Pleiades, James Muehlner
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The Pleiades

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Imaging a wide-band target like this with an OSC from light polluted skies is always a challenge, and this was certainly no exception.

It came out with horrible color splotching that I was able to eventually mostly clean up with aggressive processing techniques.

I ended up going getting more of the surrounding nebulosity than the fine detail in the dust around the stars, but I think it looks kind of cool. I might come back and reprocess it later.

I also lost a whole 5 hours of data because sharpcap decided to auto-select 8-bit .SER as the output format, instead of 16-bit TIFF. Ouch.

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Description: raw stacked image

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C

Description: Attempted to make the nebula a bit bluer and less teal.

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The Pleiades, James Muehlner

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